Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid handmade horse I just find it amazing

I just find it amazing

4 3/4" x 3 3/4"

and of interest at least as much for what they reveal about the painter as the subject

very early 20th century first hand document of a burning oil tank in Parker

Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid handmade horse I just find it amazingJust recently I've been paying some attention to antique and vintage glass advertising paperweights most of them not of much interest to me, but occasionally one comes across one with a really interesting or unusual graphic. Like this one! I believe it is Bauhaus era, made by the Aktlen Industrial Glass Company in Dresden, Germany c. 1920s 30s, with the red lettering printed on transparent film suspended inside the glass, and then a layer of wire mesh